Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner.… — Ellen G. White
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. — Oscar Wilde
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that… — Thornton Wilder
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. — Colin Wilson
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were… — Francis Collins
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this… — Woody Allen
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,… — P.G. Wodehouse
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try… — Thomas Huxley
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings… — Harlan Ellison
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. — Herman Melville
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is… — Charlotte Bronte
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff
Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes… — Dean Koontz
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,… — William Shakespeare
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness. — Markus Zusak
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them… — Nick Hornby
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to… — Alice Munro
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your… — Maya Angelou
In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but… — William Saroyan
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you… — Euripides
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent… — William Butler Yeats

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